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MUSSER ET AL. v. UTAH

Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: November 10, 1947
Decided: February 9, 1948
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Hugo Black
Dissenting
William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge

MUSSER ET AL. v. UTAH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 9, 1948. The case was argued before the court on November 10, 1947.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Utah State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: remand to determine basis of state or federal court decision (cf. judicial administration: state law)
Petitioner: Defendant
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Utah
Citation: 333 U.S. 95
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
Who wrote the majority opinion: Robert Jackson

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024

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